Impact an Educational Multimodal Intervention to Improve Healthy Habits in Adolescents.

Impact an Educational Multimodal Intervention to Improve Healthy Habits in Adolescents

Background:

Adolescence is a critical period to promote healthy habits.

Objective: To know the impact that a multimodal educational intervention has on the knowledge and modification of healthy habits (HS) (Mediterranean diet (DM) and physical activity) in adolescents.

Methodology: randomized controlled clinical trial, with multimodal educational intervention, in the Diocesan College of Cáceres.

The participants will be assign to the control (GC) or experimental (GE) group by randomization, the latter received a multimodal educational intervention (theoretical and practical workshops on HS).

Data will be collect: sociodemographic, academic notes, anthropometric data, KIDMED questionnaire and physical activity questionnaire (PAQ-A); Pre and post intervention. And knowledge about HS will be evaluate.

The parents of the intervention group will receive workshops on healthy habits, benefits of diet and physical exercise, as well as the adolescents of the intervention group.

All parents will grant consent to participate.

. Inclusion Criteria:

• aged between 11 and 16 years who were in their 1st and 2nd years of compulsory secondary education (ESO).

Exclusion Criteria:

• adolescents with serious illnesses such as cancer or with serious mental health problems (depression requiring treatment) and
• Adolescents who, despite having parental consent, did not wish to participate.